After Mitt Romney blasted the Obama administration's auto bailout in the Detroit News -- defending his view that a bankruptcy process would have been superior -- ex-auto czar Steve Rattner pushes back in an interview with the Free Press.

Steve Rattner, the former White House "car czar" who went on to write a book about his experiences, is trying to engage Mitt Romney on the auto bailout, which Team Obama is describing as the "foundation" of restoring the economy: